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Your basic premise was flawed. Why shouldn't corporations try to avoid paying taxes? Corporations are owned by stockholders. Stockholders are taxpaying individuals who are taxed on any dividends they receive from the corporation and are taxed on any gain in the value of their stock. The corporations are taxed, and the stockholders are taxed. So all of the productive activity of the corporation is taxed twice. If you want to investigate the "fleecing of America," why not investigate why the government thinks it needs all this twice-taxed money? Investigate how much money is spent spending the money that...
...express their feelings presumes that we have feelings, and we do have a few, but they remain submerged, and the airing of them often violates their authenticity. We are, as a gender, as dull as we seem. Contrary to the claptrap of the men's movement, men gain power through not talking. "The strength of the genie," said poet Richard Wilbur, "comes from being in a bottle." I'm no biologist, but my guess is that the male human animal was programmed for silence. One can make us talk counter to our genetic makeup, but it is like training kangaroos...
...Some children use aggression to gain attention...Though you might find his words upsetting, you will confuse him if you respond by getting angry...A child wants to be stopped from doing harm." (Your Child: What Every Parent Needs to Know...
Never the curmudgeon of myth, Rockefeller had a droll, genial personality that masked supreme cunning and formidable self-control. It is certainly true that he was not the least bit squeamish about tough tactics. He colluded with railroads to gain preferential freight rates, secretly owned rivals, bribed state legislators and engaged in industrial espionage. From Cleveland, he rolled up one refining center after another until his control was absolute. He was still in his 30s, the boy wonder of American business. At the same time, he was a devout Baptist with a ministerial air, who professed to have no less...
Though it's hard to believe today, discount retailing was a controversial concept when it began to gain ground in the '50s at stores such as Ann & Hope, which opened in a reclaimed mill in Cumberland, R.I. Traditional retailers hated it, and so did manufacturers; it threatened their control of the marketplace. Most states had restrictions on the practice...